The corpus record — Latin

macris

macris · f

the name of several islands

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Mā^cris — Lewis & Short

Mā^cris, ĭdis, f., = *makris,

I the name of several islands.

I In the Ægean Sea, near Ionia, Liv. 27, 13; 28; 29.—

II An ancient name of the island of Eubœa, Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 64.—

III Of Chios, Plin. 5, 31, 38, § 136. —

IV Of Icarus, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 68.

In the wild

macris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.6.p1
macris Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.2.3
macris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.12.p3
macris Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.9.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.